The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-29

place 100, bDRJ'S ALL AuQ OH 10 went,
with a dreadful slam Of the door.
The hardest part Of it all was at
home, telling them who had believed 80
in ''our SAM" He spoke with az
much indifference as he could muster.
Next week he would begin to pick the
potatoes. He made a brave show of
interest in farm work to his father.
That was all that he was fitted for,
blunderer that he was.
Only-how he hated IL. Involuntary
the picture Of a students room at Han
over came to him again. But he had
promised, and 1t was all at an end.
1t was no use. The bread was chok.
ing him. Why did not somebody
speak-why, for PHYS sake, we're they
all looking at him, was their bread
choking them. tooP
He pushed his chair back and went
to his own room What, such a baby
as to cry--neveri Arthur must not
see him with red eyes. The first thing
they fell upon was the FURNISHED stu.
dent lamp. He flung himself on the
bed and the cry came.
The boys were to be at Colonel Mar
denis house at eight thas evening.
Arthur was already in the library, with
the look of triumph on his face that he
tried decently to COW a Sam entered;
he had not come at his usual pace.
He took the chair to which the Colo.
mel pointed and sat looking into the
fire. He must not cry here. He looked
almost sullen. Mercifully, Colonel
Marden began ct once.
81 have made my decision" he said.
ut may relieve you, Sam. to know that
l found the lost will to night, 10 an old
Index which you had eve touched"
Was there the least possible emphasis
on the s'youp" Was 1t chance that for
a moment his glance rested Oh Arthur?
$50 you are ex%onerated. Perhaps the
man / ft out as my substitute to Eight
the good fight will only be like myself,
in the rank and file; perhaps he will be
a leader of men.
BE that as 1t may, I want n who
can put self away for the welfare Of
another, who a be true to cause
rather than party, magnanimous to all
enemy, and with whom outward con-
siderations car weigh nothing against
his own instructive sense Of right. l
gave you a complete examination in
that, too, and IN Of you failed. My
choice is-Sam Allen"
The face by the fire was transformed.
What, to 60 to college, not to disap-
point them, not to dig potatoes and
pick apples and hoe corn after ALI
What would they say at home, Jerry
and the rest. He was unconscious that
lie had risen. half in the involuntary
act of racing to tell them, but fettered
by something else. He was looking at
the man before him. Yes. they spoke
truly who placed his goodness ever be-
fore his branls, and they-he and Ar
thur-had stupidity forgotten that. Ii
he could only live to be like him; to be
truly his substitute. He cared as little
as he realized that the forbidden tears
had come, so thick that everything was
in a mist, that he was stretching both
his hands out, blindly, gropingly. For
what, he had no idea. Perhaps for
mstintive seeking for help in the reso-
luton of that moment,
As in a mist, too. came Colonel Mar
denis concluding words:
~ am sorry for your disappointment,
Arthur. 1t was a hard test. my boy,
and not one In a thousand would have
done differently. But what / want in
my substitute, highly as 1 prize intel.
.lect, is not one-half so much what men
know as 'smartnes.' as what they in.
instinctively feel as honor"